Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-28

eral Hundred Feet-The Grover Cleye.
ianA Claim.
During the past year or two mat
ters and things on the East Fork O,
Wood River have been rather quiet
True, the North Star, Pride of Idaho
and other claims have yielded ore RICH,
along in smaller or larger quantities
but nothing has occurred to cause
any great excitement such as are 50
common in mining regions, the owners
OF promising properties having kept
quietly at work, biding the time when
their prospects would prove to be
mines.
The owners of the Triumph group
are among the number. For six wears
work has been prosecuted on the five
or six claims of the company, but
only comparatively small lots-not
exceeding $4,000 in the aggregate
of shipping ore extracted. The orig
inal locators, being poor, could not
open the property as it should be,
and, about three years ago, were
finally compelled to sell. IL. Lewis,
J. G. Conklin, and J. o. Swift then
became interested and spent several
thousand dollars without finding any
thing worth while. Mr.. Lewis sold
out, and soon thereafter John Brewer,
w. Fl. Watt, Professor Jenney, and
Walter Clark became interested.
Work was resumed with renewed
vigor, but only to meet with renewed
disappointment.
Finally, early last year, Mr.. Brewer
concluded to come lower down the
hill, and prospect for the Mayleaf
ledge. He did SO, and was soon re-
warded by finding paying ore. He
then went about 100 feet lower, and
run in another tunnel; he again
struck pay ore. One hundred feet
lower he cut the vein; the ore was
lower grade, but there was more of it .
He then went about 100 feet lower,
and ran another tunnel. To do this
he was compelled to erect his black
smith shop and dump on Grover
Cleveland ground, which adjoins the
Mayleaf. A tunnel about 200 feet
long was here required to tap the
ledge; but when it was at last cut
into it was found to have attained
large proportions. A drift was then
run both ways along the vein, with an
occasional "gouge-hole" to ascertain
its width. The ore was found to be
from one to eight feet in width.
After running the drift about 800 feet
work upon it was discontinued, both
extremities being in ore. An upraise
was then made in the vein a highth
Of about $50 feet-in ore all the way.
In order to ascertain the character of
the vein, small drift or narrow in
cline was scooped out at the head of
the upraise, and the ore-vein found to
be of about the same value as
lower down, but narrower-as was to
be expected, being nearer the surface.
Having demonstrated to their en-
tire satisfaction the existence of a
well-defned vein of paying ore, the
Triumph Mining Company then went
still lower down the hill, and started
another tunnel. This has been driven
about 500 feet, in Grover Cleveland
ground all the way, and has just en-
tered into Mayleaf or Triumph Com
pany's ground. When it cuts the
Mayleaf vein, as it undoubtedly will,
it will demonstrate the existence of a
continuous ore-body from the surface
down, and thus give the Triumph
Company fully 500 feet Of "backs,"
or up-stopes, by a known length of
fully 800 feet. How much longer
the ore-chute is is, of course, unde-
termined.
The next important move of the
company will doubtless be theacon-
struction of concentrating works at
the mine, and thus recovering some of
the money invested there. Then, if
it chooses to continue the Mayleaf
tunnel into the original group, it can
obtain depth of fully 1000 feet, and
cut at least two known lodes at that
great depth.
The Triumph Company has ex-
pended over $4,000 in developing
this property; but it has the satisfao